Crystal River current., 1887-01-15

few days ago.
John Roach, the ship builder, is
dying from the same disease which carried
away General Grant
E. Duncan Sniffin, advertising agent
at New York, has failed. Liabilities about
800, 900. Assets unknown.
1t is officially announced that Mr..
Goschen will be Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer in the Tory Cabinet.
During the month of December the
mints produced s6s7, ,4O5 in fractional silver
coin and q, $50, ,a6l in standard dollars.
The Washington fund for Mrs. Logan
will be invested in four per cent bonds
which will be registered in her name.
Work on the Panama canal is pro-
crossing to the satisfaction Of the contrac-
tors. The sanitary condition is said to be
good.
The President and Mrs. Cleveland en-
dured a hand-shake from 1000 or 5000 peo-
pie at the New Years reception at the
White House.
The debt statement for December
shows reduction in the debt OF 90, ,35S, ,2O2
The total cash in the Treasury amounts to
~, ,7SS
The bank examiner at New York
refused to resign at the request of the
Comptroller of the Treasury and he was
promptly fired.
John NJ. Woodward, of st. Louis,
has brought suit against the Missouri Pa
cific railroad for an even million of dollars
for breach of contract.
The strikers on the cable road in
San Francisco tried to blow up the track
with dynamite. They made a big noise but
didn't do much damage.
Russia has borrowed 100000
francs in Paris with which to construct
canal across the neck of land joining the
Crimea to the main land.
At the semi-monthly meeting of the
National League in Dublin, the Treasurer
reported the receipt of s25, 600 from America
during the past two weeks.
A natural-gas explosion at Youngs-
town, Ohio, destroyed the Andrews Block
and four other buildings together with a
church. Several people were killed. Loss
100000.
In fire at the Peoples Park in
Madras on Friday, which lasted only fifteen
minutes, 800 people were either burned to
death or suffocated, and as many more
were injured.
There is a movement in Washington
headed, it is said, by Mr.. Randall, looking
to the total repeal of the internal revenue
tax. This would lessen the taxes this coun-
try has to pay by s1aO,OOO,OOo year.
Emperor William celebrated the
eightieth anniversary of his entrance into
the Prussan army on the 1st, by receiving
all the commanding Generals, headed by
the Crown Prince. Frederick William.
Wittrock, Weaver and Haight, the
three men accused of the Express robbery
near st. Louis, have plead guilty and been
sentenced to the penitentiary, WittrOck
and IIaight for seven years and Weaver for
five.
w. G. Deshler, banker and Million
aire, of Columbus, o., has given to the Col
umbus Female Benevolent Society 800, 600
to be invested and controlled by an ad-
visory board of gentlemen for the use of the
Society.
At a convention of County Judges of
the Eighth Texas District, it was reported
that 10000 people there need food and
clothing while thousands more were with
out seed to plant during the coming year.
Aid is asked.
The bakers of Boston are organized
into an Assembly of Knights of Labor, but
having become dissatisfied with the Order
they are about to withdraw in body and
form an open Trade Union which will be
attached to the National Bakers Union.
An unusual number of frightful rail
way accidents have occurred recently. On
the day of the terrible accident at Tiffin,
Ohio, a train on Massachusetts road was
thrown from the track by broken wheel
and two persons killed and large number
injured.
Since the recent railroad disaster at
Tiffin, Ohio, it is said that the Patent Office
is besieged by representatives from the diff
ferent railroad companies making inquiries
concerning patents which have been
granted for devices for heating cars in a
manner other than by stoves.
The Odessacalchi palace in Rome